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Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm tired. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of talk
about the NBA All Star Weekend. I'm tired of talk
about the Slam Dunk Contest. And I certainly am tired
of all of this noise about me being president of
whether or not I'm qualified to even run. I got
news for you. I got a surprise for you on
that subject as well. The commander in Team stephen A. Smith.

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Got a lot of stuff to get into today, especially
the political landscape Trump and Putin and Elon Musk and
some stuff going on there, but also involving me, and

(02:26):
I'll explain why that is and how I feel about it.
But before I get into any of that, by the way,
my nephew's in the house. He's going to be coming
here in a few minutes. He's invaded the residencies, the
residents rather, so I gotta deal with that. But I
got to get to the NBA All Star Weekend in
the Bay Area. First, we're hometown hero Steph Curry captured

(02:47):
the second All Star Game MVP to the delight of
the fans at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Curry
scored twelve points in Team shacks OG's forty one twenty
five victory Sunday in the first of forty finale against
Charles Barkley's Global Stars to win the league's new round
robin tournament. The two teams had dismissed Candae Parker and
Kenny Smith squads in the semifinals. Some of the players

(03:08):
acknowledged the new format led to a more competitive product,
but it was met with mixed reviews overall. Case in point,
mister Draymond Green. The biggest headlines of All Star Weekend
may have been generated by him, who expressed his displeasure
with the changes to the All Star Game. When asked
to rate the new All Star Game format on a
scale of one to ten during TNT's broadcast, he gave

(03:30):
it quote a zero. He questioned the addition of the
Rising Stars to the Sunday All Star Game festivities and
said the new three game format quote sucks end quote
end quote. It ate basketball end quote. A couple of
things before I get into this. Number one, Draymond Green,

(03:51):
Jalen Rose, and Vince Carter were outstanding, absolutely outstanding, no
doubt about it. They did that thing yesterday. They did
what pregame shows are supposed to do, and in the
case of Draymond Green, can't say enough. He stole the
show with some of his comments. This was one of them.

(04:11):
Now I went on Twitter and I said, for the record,
I agree with him. It's All Star Weekend. You mean
Ricky All Stars. They're not supposed to be a part
of basketball on Sunday evening for the All Stars. So
I think that Draymond Green was absolutely right, and I
had no problem with him expressing his displeasure. But what

(04:36):
NBA All Star Weekend had deteriorated into in terms of
its main event, no doubt about it. But that doesn't
mean that he was complete in his synopsis and his
breakdown of what disgusted him about the encore for All
Star Weekend. Because you see, when you point to the
game itself and the appearance and the participation of Ricky

(04:59):
All Star, Draymond Green left one thing out. One thing out.
He left out the fact that it was the fault
of the players, the legitimate All Stars, who have basically
snubbed their nose and given the proverbial middle finger to
the league, to sponsors and advertisers, and to the fans

(05:22):
because you've shown up each week over the last two
to three years minimum, and you have flat out sucked.
You haven't given a damn. When you couple that with
the load management issues that had concerned the league, and
you considered the games missed and the activity of people

(05:44):
missing games and announcing it the last minute that they
were going to miss the games and stuff like that
during regular season and beyond, it became problematic. So the
dereliction of duty exercised while the players on All Star
Weekend is specifically the Sunday game, the main event. That
stuff is what provoked rookie All Stars being added to

(06:06):
it because we knew that players were gonna get their
backup and they didn't want to be the one going
out there losing to the rookie All Stars. And you
saw that happen, You saw an extra level of an
elevated level of effort. You saw all of that. Why,
because they didn't want to get bounced out by rookie
All Stars who they know were coming for them. That's
exactly why the league did it. They did it to

(06:30):
soak and milk every ounce of effort from All Stars
who were supposed to be showing it. To begin with,
I will remind y'all that did y'all know All Star
activities is a part of their country? Did you know
that it's a part of their country? And for these
guys to walk up a prominent agent in the league

(06:52):
said to me a few weeks ago, he said, the
problem with the All Star weekend is that the players
look at the league like a instead of looking at
them like partners. You know what is a bank. It's
the place that holds your money and you're allowed to
come get whatever they're contractually obligated to give you based

(07:18):
on a salary that you receive and nothing more. As
opposed to looking at the league as partners who helped
you get an eleven year, nearly seventy seven billion dollar
deal with a league average salary being of over ten
million dollars, were God's getting generational wealth. And what we're
not seeing here is that you got cats that are

(07:39):
making nine figures, well over one hundred, well over two
hundred million, in some cases over three hundred million dollars.
And literally you got cats going out there signing their
contract and playing for their next contract or protecting themselves
for their next contract without honoring what the president contract

(08:00):
that they signed their name too, and what they're obligated
to fulfill before they've done anything in regards to that.
Let me position myself to acquire generation of wealth. But
before you fulfill your obligations to earn the money you
just signed off for. Let me tell y'all something right now.

(08:21):
NBA All Star week is in the world of trouble.
Last night was a step in the right direction because
we saw some effort for the first time in a while,
which was a good thing. Because I'm here to tell
you right now, had they showed up and not given
any effort similar to what they did the last two
to three years, had they done that last night, I'm
here to tell y'all right now, the NBA All Star
Weekend was in danger of being canceled. I'm not guessing.

(08:41):
I'm telling you what I know. It was on the
verge of being canceled. So please understand that that's what
we're talking about here, that really, really is. So I
was pleased with what I saw compared to what I
saw for the previous two to three years, but it
still wasn't anything, And knock my socks off, it really

(09:02):
really wasn't. And I didn't blame Draymond Green one second
for saying what he said. I'm just saying you got
to put the owners where it belongs, which is on
the players who've wet the bed in terms of their effort.
By the way, we got two examples last night. Listen,
how you Lebron James, and you're gonna announce right before

(09:24):
to the league that you can't participate. You showed up
to San Francisco and you can't play. You didn't know
that beforehand, so they could have made sure to have
somebody like a Norman Power of the Clippers or somebody
else that was there to fill your spot. Adam Silver
didn't have time to name a replacement because Lebron James
let him know at the last minute. Though any of

(09:45):
us believe that Lebron James didn't know he was gonna play,
do any of us believe for one second that he
decided at the last minute he was gonna play. Nobody
believes that. Nobody's by I mean spin teuge wet spending
somebody's face telling them it's raining. Nobody's believing that he
could have let him know, but he did it. I

(10:05):
got news for you too. Who says anything about Steph Curry,
I mean the great Steph Curry. I mean, talk about
a godlike figure. I mean, to say anything negative about
this brother is damn They're sacrilegious because he is, to
quit essential ambassador. He is perfection personified as a human being.

(10:28):
He's God fearing, he's decent, he's a family man. Don't
get himself in any trouble, don't talk bad about anybody.
Nothing Seth Curry special. But is it just me, fellas
ladies talking to my staff here? Is it just me? Am?
I the only one that had a problem with the
fact that the three point shooting contest was taking place

(10:50):
right there in San Francisco on his home turf, and
he wasn't a participant? Is it just me? Is it
just me? I mean, he's only the greatest shooter God
ever created. It's a three point shooting contest. I appreciate
the fact that Damian Lillard was a two time champion
and then he ultimately lost. It probably had something to

(11:11):
do with all that damn activity is going on where
y'all interrupting their rhythm. He damned it looked like he
was taking a nap on a bench before it was
his turn to shoot. Maybe if y'all hadn't disrupted this rhythm,
he would have been better off. But any event, it
came down to Buddy Heel versus Tyler Hero. Ain't no
shame in that both the brothers can shoot. But All

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Star Weekend is in San Francisco, on the home turf
of Steph Curry, and the greatest shooter God has ever
created chose that three point shooting event to not participate.
Is it just me? Is it just me? Would have
been nice to see him. Just wanted to say that.

(11:55):
Let me move on to the next subject, because we
got to get to the Dunk Contest, where we saw
Matt McClung become the first player to win it three
straight years, beating rookie Stephan Castle of the San Antonio
Spurs in the final. His first dunk was over a car,
and after his performance, NBA stars John Moran and Jannis
after the gunpo publicly contemplated participating in the context next season.

(12:17):
John said he may have to enter the frame next
year and shouted out former champ Zach Lavine and Aaron Gordon,
and Yanna said he would participate if Moran entered the contest,
which basically means neither of the imna gonna participate because
we know John Moran is just talking. Now, this is
a brother that has been a skywalker for years, but

(12:40):
suddenly you gonna want to participate. Who you fooling? Don't
believe it, ladies and gentlemen, until we see it. I'm
so sick of this stuff. I really really am. It
really really rakes my nerves. And by the way, Yana's
your seven feet, I'm not that interested in seeing you
in the dunk contest. Honestly speaking, if we really really
think about do we really care to see a seven

(13:01):
footer in a dunk contest? You barely have to come
off your tippy toes to dunk. Now, Mack McClung ain't
spud Wab but the brother special and props to mac
McClung because that brother can dunk. White dudes can jump, evidently,
remember the movie White Man Can't Jump where Wesley Snipes

(13:22):
and Woody Harrison. White Man evidently can dunk. Because that
brother Mack McClung, not one, not two, but three times
back to back to back champions. Having said that, with
all the credit this kid deserves, can we take a

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moment to pause to give it some proper perspective. Sherry,
don't laugh too much, Griff, don't look sad because Mack
McClung looks like you and you're looking out for your brother.
Just listen to me. Can we just be very, very
honest and realistic about something here, Ladies and gentlemen, Draymond's

(14:08):
assertions about All Star Game should also apply to the
Slam Dunk contest. Do you know that Mac McClung is
in the G League? Do you know that he has
three Slam Dunk Championships and it almost matches the number
of NBA games he's actually played in his NBA career.

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Do you know that Mac mcclun has played a grand
total of five NBA games in his career and he's
won three Slam Dunk titles. This is not to throw
any shade on him whatsoever. It's to show how disgraceful
the players are. Nobody can participate in this, Ladies and gentlemen,

(14:49):
let me stay for the record right now. This is
not piling on because Lebron James is the second greatest
player in the history of basketball, who I believe is
grossly underpaid. It's worth more than he's being paid as
an ambassador for this league, is a marquee and has
spent the vast majority of his career showing up in
every way one can imagine, except for one thing, and

(15:11):
that is slam Dunk contest of All Star Weekend. Lebron
James single handedly ruined this competition. Ruined it, Ladies, gentlemen,
to get Mack McClung out the way, y'all do understand
that Mac McClung. Those are prop dunks. That's right. I

(15:34):
said it, Griff, don't be offended. He'll be afraid enough
talking about your brother like that. It's the truth, that's
the truth. He doesn't dribble. Even Dominique Wilkins, who didn't
have much of a hand, who used to dribble, he
doesn't dribble. What he dunks, there's always assistance or he's
always getting some running start. Did you see Vince caught

(15:57):
in two thousand Huh? Did you see it? I saw it.
Did you see Zach Levie in twenty fifteen that wasn't
even his best? Did you see him in twenty sixteen
against Aaron Gordon? Did you see it? I saw it?
Did you see it? I mean these brothers were sensational.

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Did you see Jordan in eighty eight against Dominique Wilkins.
Did you see him? See him cuff the ball? You
see Doctor j back in the day, You see sput Web,
you see Jason Richardson. Did you see Dawaight Howard versus
Nate Robinson. I appreciate so much what Matt McClung did

(16:48):
over the last three years to save the dunk contest,
But let's stop talking about him like he's on those
brothers level. It's not true. It's not true. He's not,
but you have to make it seem that way because
at least he had the decency to be fearless enough

(17:08):
to participate, which is more than we could say for
a whole bunch of brothers legitimately in the NBA who
are stars who want no part of this competition. And
it all started with Lebron. Doctor j participated, David Thompson participated,
Dominique Wilkins participated, Michael Jordan participated, Vince Carter participated, Tracy

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McGrady participated, Kobe Bryant participated. All the megastars who played
above the rim participated until Lebron James refused. He ruined
the slam Dunk contest, which is why if you can

(17:52):
have a Matt mcclun coming from the G League, I
would strongly advise people to embrace my suggestion. Remember when
I said over the airways before not just this show,
but on ESPN, I would personally attach my name to
a nationwide contest going throughout the cities of America to
find the top ten slam dunkers in the country to

(18:18):
come to All Star Weekend. And what I would do
is use ten All Stars to sponsor the players that
they support that they think would win, where they could
be active participants but play the role of cheerleaders and
sponsors while you let them dunk. First prize a million dollars,

(18:38):
second prize half a million dollars, Third prize one hundred
thousand dollars. We got brothers in the streets starving for
a portion of those dollars. At one hundred thousand, let
alone five hundred thousand of a million. Could you imagine
what they would do to participate in a slam dunk
contest on All Star Weekend. It would be the best
slam dunk contest maybe ever. That's what we should be

(19:01):
thinking about that's what we should be thinking about again.
Props to Mac McClung. Appreciate his contribution, but let's stop
acting like we ain't seen better. We have. I gave
you a plethora of examples. And boy of zach Lavine
gets back in it next year and Aaron Gordon gets back,

(19:22):
and I think's too late for Aaron Gordon. They'll be
a too old to be doing that. But zach Lavine,
John Morant certainly has the ability, but he didn't want
to do it to what you want to do it now?
For I don't believe it. Zack Levine already did it twice.
He doesn't owe us that. But if he gave us
gave it to us a third time, boy, what the
treated would be. That's all I wanted to say about that.

(19:44):
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(20:49):
to it first. Up with the Los Angeles Lakers, Lebron James.
Will he score more or less than twenty three and
a half points against the Charlotte Hornets. I'm going with more.
The brother had a break, right's rest? Right? Didn't play
All Star weekend? Right? I mean, and you look at
it from that standpoint, I know he's trying to get
Luke involved in all of this other stuff. But Lebron
is Lebron, and with the criticism he's gonna get for

(21:09):
sitting out and letting the NBA know at the last
damn minute that he was sitting out, not giving Adam
Silver an opportunity to name a replacement. He's gonna take
some heat when Lebron gave James since his heat, he
responds the best way he knows how to on the court,
and considering the fact that it's against Charlotte Hornets, I
think he'll be fine. Twenty three and a half points
is easy. He'll handle that. Next up, will the Charlotte

(21:30):
Hornets moles Bridges scored more or less than twenty three
and a half points. I'm gonna go with less. I'm
gonna go with less. He's up and down some of
the Yany's's definitely capable of having big games, no doubt
about that. But twenty three and a half points against
the Lakers is suspect, as their defense is from time
to time. I think they can handle it. I don't
think he's gonna have that big of a game against
the Los Angeles Lakers this Wednesday night. I could be
wrong because he could give it to them. I just

(21:52):
suspect that Wednesday night's not gonna be one of those nights.
Next up with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Will the Cleveland Cavaliers
Donovan Mitchell score more or less than twenty three and
a half points, Ladies and gentlemen, I'm thinking about saying
that the Cleveland Cavali is gonna win the championship. I'm
not there yet, but I'm getting there. That's primarily because
of that brother right there. I love me some Donovan Mitchell.
I wish he was a New York nick. I don't
give a damn what size issue it would have existed

(22:14):
with him and Jalen Brunson. Could you imagine what those
brothers would be doing on the offensive side of the
ball if that brother's on the New York next I
don't give it damn what anybody says. I'm off the mindset.
Excuse me that this brother is gonna do his thing.
I'm always gonna pick him to score over twenty three
and a half point. Demn it. Even when I'm wrong,
I'm right. Oh, when I'm right, I'm wrong, it don't matter. Finally,

(22:35):
with Cleveland, Cavaliers will the Cleveland Cavaliers, Darius Garland scored
more or less than twenty and a half points. They've
been playing phenomenal basketball all year long. Darius has got
his game back. Acting sen Kenny Actinson, the new head coach,
has done his due diligence. They've got this ToIP of
the best record in basketball. Darius Garland has a lot
to do with that. I'm gonna go with more on

(22:55):
this one too. So it's more with Garland, it's more
with Mitchell, Okay, it's with Lebron James, it's less with
Myles Bridges. That's where I'm at with it. Okay, That's
just where I'm at with it. Maybe I'm right, maybe
I'm wrong. Just note this, I'm not wrong too often.
Flow with me on this. Please flow with me. Now.

(23:19):
Let me get to the whole Draymond thing, because I
don't know if y'all saw this last night, but Draymond
went a bit beyond All Star weekend, started talking about
his gold to State Warriors. Obviously, he was in front
of his homes on his home turf to Chase Center
outside with that crowd watching him, and Draymond Green had
this to say, ladies and gentlemen, I need you to
see it. Put this up on a full screen, please,

(23:40):
because I need them to see it. He said to
that crowd outside and the Jalen Rose and Vince Carter.
I think we're gonna win the championship. Oh, I'm sorry.
I lied. I said, I think we're going to win
a championship. But again I lied. We are going to
win the champion. Draymond Green, I don't think he's smoking something,

(24:08):
but I don't think they're gonna win. But I will
say this, Jimmy Butler does bring a different dimension and
Andrew Wiggins and those brothers brought. He gets to the
free throw line. I got to the free throw He's
only been there four games, got to the free throw
lines forty times. That stalls the action. That gives Steph
Curry an opportunity to rest, which means that when you're
running the floor of your offense and this brother's getting

(24:29):
loose looking to launch, you got them in a better position.
Plus Jimmy Butler defends as well. So Jimmy Butler defends
along with Draymond Green. There's no shortage of heart in
that locker room. There's no shortage of ability between Steph
and Jimmy. With Draymond's abilities outside of shooting the basketball,
I don't think Golden State could be OKAC. I don't

(24:52):
think they could be the healthy Dallas. I don't believe
they could be the healthy Denver. I'm not sure they
could be a healthy LA. I think they got a
chance against a health the LA because it's Lebron and
Luke offensively, but the Lakers got some size on them.
But I don't know, don't I think they could beat
the Lakers. One thing I will say about Draymond, he
has made the latter part of this NBA season, these

(25:15):
last twenty seven games, very interesting, very interesting, because you
know he's gonna go out there trying to back it up.
Steph Curry said he ain't had no problem with what
Draymond said, so he's ready to back it up. And
you know Jimmy Buckets ain't back it down from no
damn body. So it's about to get and Steve Kirk
can coach his ass off, So it's about to get

(25:35):
very very interesting. On that, I will say. But before
I go to break, I got a guest in the house.
I'm out of town. But my nephew is in and
when I'm not in town, he loves sitting behind my
desk acting like he's running the show. My nephew Josh, No,
it's not nephew tism, but that's what he likes to

(25:55):
call it. Look, look, why you look like you got
a beanie on or something. What the hell are you wearing?
What kind of hat is that?

Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's about five degrees out here, feeling like buffalo.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
To be honest with you, all right, move to your
left because you got a sense see this shows your amateurs,
and move a little bit to your left. You ain't
even centered trying to say.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
As long as the next next emblem was showing, somebody
got to show.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
The emblem is showing. Why why are you? Why are
you in studio sitting in my chair acting like you
you running the show? What's going on with you?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I have I have a few announcements. They're calling me JVP,
j v P. Yes, Jeff Van Gundy when you're running
for president, aren't you?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'm not. But what does that have to do with you?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well, people putting you on polls and stuff like that. No,
no funny stuff, But you're gonna need a vice no.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
What the hell I'm supposed to have you as a
vice president.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Wherever you lack, I'm strong. That's that's what's that's the
dynamic between us.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
So but I'm not lacking. What happened so you can
give me.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
The perfect the perfect candidate. Politician is no such thing.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
So whatever you're there's no perfect there's no perfect candidate.
But i'd be pretty damn good, and I think that
i'd beat any Democrat that's out there, to be quite honest.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
With you, No, but how would you make people like
me want.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
To vote for you? Well, first of all, I'm gonna
look out for you, because just because I don't smile
and sit up there and wave the and wave the
blackfist and talk about black power don't mean I'm gonna
forget my own. I'm gonna always look out for my own.
That's number one. Number two, I'm gonna look out for
the American people. See, there's a way to do both.
There's a way to do both, and you got to

(27:37):
articulate your position as opposed to creating enemies. The thing
about it is, we can't act like what we need
is a smile and we need somebody in our face see,
I had to give you tough love. You understand, because
you know what, Grandma smiled enough of your face. Grandma
set up there and pacified, pacified your baby ass self.
I mean, that's what Grandma did. I'm not gonna do that.
But don't I love you. Don't I look out for you?

(28:00):
Do I not?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
As the vice president? There are a few things that
I would you know, that I would work on, and
I feel like you wouldn't think about it, but you
would back me up, like what give it to you? Like?
For instance, why do we get tickets for not wearing
our seatbolt? It's my safety? Why I gotta pay for it?
If I'm ignoring it? That's just one if.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
You don't have on your seat pert. So in other words,
you're saying that you should have the right to harm yourself.
I should. That's that's that that? What are you?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
All?

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Your motorists are? Are Kavorkian motorists? Now? Something? What the
hell are you talking about? It's not that.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I just feel like the government sometimes just sticks there
and nose where it doesn't belong when there's real issues
out here?

Speaker 1 (28:46):
What what? What? What real issues are out there? Josh?
Because you just brought up seat belts. I mean that's
a that's a real person. That is you. I mean
saying that's just a small part. All right? So why
is the weekend only two days? Yeah? What are you
trying to say?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Why can't Friday be a part of isn't that something
that the president can sit there and decide why Friday
can do?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
It? Is not? And a weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
That's a weekend universally recognized as the weekend.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
What's the problem universally recognized? No, that's this nation and
also this nation. Why can you only have one wife?
It was just Valentine's that I was looked at as
a villain because I had three.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Cornering it into just having one Valentine. What is that
what you do this weekend?

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Did you just say on video that you have three Valentines?

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Is that what you just said? What you don't think
that that that's gonna get you in trouble running your
mouth like this?

Speaker 2 (29:48):
No, I mean unless if I told my Valentine, yes
you were my only Valentine, that be a lot. That's
not what I did.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
What did you do, Josh? What did you do?

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Well, this year, I chose me. Let's start with that.
I got tired of the same mold. Like I buy something,
I buy something ground shaking and get back like a
big comb or something like that, or my favorite. Oh
you come out with something lace, we're nothing in your hands.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I don't care. I had that before. Where's my gift?
So let me get this straight. On Valentine's you're looking
to receive a gift as opposed to give them.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, and it's because I want to start a new tradition.
The tradition is started by people, so I want to
start a new one. Valentine's Day is about me, if
you with me. Valentine's Aa is about me, because all
year round, I'm about you, right, That's what That's what
you taught me to do.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Be all about your lady. Right.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
So what's the one day could I get It's not
Valentine's Day?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Then what is it?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's another time?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Got your birthday? They got I got that.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
She got a birthday too, So why should get that
in Valentine's Day?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Because she's your lady. I'm a man.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's it. We gotta start establishing value in ourselves. I
got you, I got you, so I'm taking that note?

Speaker 1 (31:06):
What else he taking money?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Got my notes.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
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while I got you here, before I get you out
of here, and you can taminate the airwaves even further
with your drivel you under saying, I know you, you
understand of saying. Very few people on the planet know
you better than your uncle. And I know you just

(34:46):
talking smack because you know better than really legitimately thinking
and acting the way you proclaim. We ain't owning that's
wrong with you. Okay, but we'll talk about this later.
You saw All Star Weekend. What were your thoughts about
All Star Weeking? You heard what I had to say,
Well your thoughts, it's it wasn't the worst.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
It was bad. It wasn't the worst, though, And I
feel like they are going towards fixing it. I feel
like I got the solution.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
You want to hear it, Okay, all right, I want
to hear what the lootion is. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I think they got it right with the little part
of the younger, the younger team playing one of the
older teams. But I think that that should be the
All Stars. You should have All Stars under twenty eight
and then All Stars over twenty eight and have them
play each other I think pride kicks in with that,
or you could do the Europeans and the international players dynamic.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I think I think I think soccer is a litmus
test in disregard Josh in all seriousness when you look
at the competition overseas and how rapid that fan base
is and and and how serious they take it. The
players have no choice because listen, it's it's not safe

(35:56):
for them when they lose when they give one max effort.
So so if they were lack of days ago in
any way, could you imagine how those folks would act.
So I think that because of the pride that they
take in representing their homeland wherever that may be, you
put the international players up against the US players, since

(36:18):
this is where the sport was born. You put it
up against the US players, and the US players go
up against the international players, and that's how you have
all star wiken. And I also think you put it
in different places. One year you put it in the States,
another year you put it in Paris, another year you
come back to the States. Another year you go to England,
another year you come back to the States. Another year

(36:40):
you might go to Croatia or Sweden. Or Finland or
someplace like that, Amsterdam, which is I here as a
party town and all of this other Croatia something like that.
I think you do that. Or rather, let's say, for example,
you got Luca, he's from Slovenia, all right, you have
other you know when beyonnas from France, you have and

(37:03):
be to somebody who's from Congo. I think you go
to those places where one of those players are represented
and you have the All Star festivity there. I think
that's how you do it. I think that's the only
thing that could potentially save the event. To that you say, what.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Well, hopefully you do have one of the best ideas,
because like you blame Lebron for the dunk contest.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
This is all your full his fault of mine.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
No. No, the All Star Game and the season where
people are like load managing and stuff like that, that's you.
You want to know what why you are one of
the main starters of championship or nothing. So now they
ignore the journey and listening to you saying don't count,

(37:48):
we don't care if you got forty ten and ten
at night, let's see what you do. In June, you
were saying that about Lebron for about a decade.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
So it was like, all right, that's inaccurate. I'm sorry,
that's inaccurate. What I said was that in terms of yes,
once you show what you can do and what your
abilities are, you gotta close. You can't be one of
them brothers that's doing it with games that don't matter.
But then when the games matter most, you shrink because
the great ones didn't do that. That's what I say,

(38:15):
and that's what I hold him accountable to. You don't
take away from their greatness as a talent. What you're
saying is to validate it, to close the deal. You
got to show up in the moments that count. And
last time I checked, you agreed with me because you
brought up a score.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Championships, I agree with you a little bit, but a
little I'll see Lebron average thirty four, eighteen and seven
in the finals and lose. That's not him not closing.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
That's tamau tamout. If Lebron is averaging thirty but in
the fourth quarter like he did against Dallas, you're going
up against a Jason Terry or you know, JJ Burrea
and you can't score on them in the fourth quarter.
What the hell you want me to say?

Speaker 2 (39:00):
That's that's that's that's only Dallas. I'm talking about the
other nine.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Well, that's a big deal. Let me ask you question,
when did that ever happen to Jordan? Who, by the way,
congratu happy birthday to Jordan because it's the sixty second
birthday today. How sixty two sixty two, So Michael Jordan
is his sixty second birthday today? He had those kind
of moments. I mean, well he was, he was.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
He was one and eight before Scotti Pittman came on
the team, and you know how I feel.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, he was one and eight and what in the playoffs?
Excuse me? Excuse me? Aund sweeps that's fine? To first
round seats? You mean when he dropped sixty three and
Larry Bird called them god and Jim Shorts mean when
he had nothing but himself and a bunch of malemen
working with him. Excuse me? Is that what you're talking about?
Are you kidding me? Are you? Are you? Are you?
Are you on drugs?

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I'm not on drugs? And as a matter of fact,
Lebron in two thousand and seven, what was his team like?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
I gave him credit for getting up to the championship
against the Spurs. I've never held that loss to the
Spurs against him. But in Dallas when he was with
d Wade and by send those boys and and he
went to bed in the fourth quarter. That's a fact.
You know this. You know this. And by the way,
why the hell do you have on that tight ass
New York Knicks jacket? I mean, why why is it

(40:12):
so tight?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Oh no, it wasn't tight like a month ago. You
got me in the gym. So my stuff starting. So
you're working out my stuff starting, and they're working out yeah,
and busting out.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
My clothes company, busting out your glothes.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Company card and needs some new clothes. I'm coming down tonight.
Worry about it.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Goodbye, man, get the hell out of here. I'll see
you later.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Don't come down.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, we're done. Don't come down. Don't come down. You're
probably complaining about your flight arrangers anyway, with your spoiled
that self coming up. Come in the news Stephen A.
Smith as President of the United States. Everybody want to
know if I'm serious or if I'm bluffing. Stick around
and you'll find out exactly where I stand. But before that,
we got to get in the hole and some legal

(40:54):
action that has evaporated before our very eyes. The kind
of legal action that was being taken against them gone.
We'll discuss that next right here on Stephen Nate Smithshaw.
Don't go away. Welcome back to Steve Nate Smithshaw, right
here with the digsual airways, with YouTube and of course iHeartRadio.
Let me get into some pop culture please, I'm not

(41:14):
gonna call this entertainment. The woman who accused jay Z
in Sean Diddy Combs of raping her when she was
thirteen years old has dropped her lawsuit against both men
less than four months after it was filed. Court records
showed that the suit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the
plaintiff cannot refile a suit. The suit included disturbing details

(41:39):
of how the woman was allegedly lured by a limousine
driver outside the two thousand MTV Video Music Awards and
assaulted by the two rappers at an after party. Jay
Z strongly denied the claims, and his attorneys had been
seeking to get the case dismissed. In a statement on Saturday,
jay Z Sean Carter himself said the claims will quote frivolous, fictitious,

(42:03):
and appalling, and called the suit a money grab. The
statement continued, I would not wish this experience on anyone.
The trauma that my wife, my children, my loved ones,
and I have endured can never be dismissed. This one
to eight hundred lawyer gets to file a suit hiding
behind Jane Doe, and when they quickly realize that the

(42:26):
money grab is going to fail, they get to walk
away with no repercussions. The court must protect victims, of course,
while with the same ethical responsibility, the courts must protect
the innocent from being accused without a shred of evidence.
End quote. On Saturday, Colm's attorney said the suit dropped
on Friday will be the first of many that will

(42:48):
not hold up in a court of law. End quote.
Jay z ain't that one. As far as I'm concerned.
He did exactly what he was supposed to do. He
didn't sit oddly buy and watch his name be raaked
through the colds and Sully the way that he did.
Most of us would have. Most of us would have
let our lawyers handled it. We would have shut up,
we would have kept silid. He didn't do that, and

(43:10):
I remember I was taking a lot of heat for
coming to jay Z's defense. My initial question is where
the hell are y'all now? And to the people who
have smiled in jay Z's face, who was supposed to
be his friends, who are supposed to be supportive of
his where y'all at? Where y'all at? Let me be

(43:33):
very very clear, none of us were there. We don't
know what happened to whatever the case may be. That's fair,
and if you have a microphone and a camera in
front of you, you have an obligation to say that.
But in the same breath, what was I being attacked? For?
Ladies and gentlemen, if you were, if you were recalled?
What I said was the man that I have known

(43:56):
and I have been friends with for twenty five years.
There's no way I believe he's capable of something like that. See,
the bigger issue is the damn punks that society has
turned us into. You can say two things at once.

(44:19):
You can say I wasn't there, and I have no
factual evidence to prove my position. But the person that
I've known for twenty five years, nah, I don't believe
he would do that. I want to stak. I want
to make sure that I'm clear because I got friends
and loved ones and people like that in my life.

(44:40):
If y'all ever handle some stuff with me the way
that some of these people handle this stuff with jay Z,
y'all kiss my ass and you go to hell, because
at the very least somebody should be able to say,
I've known stephen A for twenty twenty five years, forty years, Nah,

(45:04):
I can't see him doing it. You're just gonna go
silent and just leave him hanging like that when it
ain't like he was silent. It ain't like he hid
it and leaving others to talk for him. No, he
spoke and said I'm innocent. This is not true, and

(45:25):
nobody could stand up and say, nah, I that brother
that I know, I can't see that a thirteen year
old girl, Yes, you are guilty. You are innocent until
proven guilty in the court of law, and we understand
it in the court of public opinion. It shifted in

(45:47):
this day and age. You know what the sad part
is some of you out there might have believed jay
Z was totally innocent, but you know what, it wasn't
clickbait to say that so what you wanted to do
was throw it out there and give a reaction for
bake purposes. That's sad, it really really is. If I'm

(46:12):
attorney Buzzby, ILL watch my back because jay Z coming.
I don't believe for one second that jay Z's gonna
sit oddly by and stop there. I don't believe it.
I don't believe it. You don't have to hang out
with people everybody, Eh, Steven, you're trying, you name, You're
trying to act like you cool that. You know how

(46:34):
many times I've been in forty forty know how many
times me and jay Z were hanging out in the
back with with og Wan and the rest of the
crew talking sports, hanging out, playing cards, playing fantasy football
or whatever it is. You know how many times I've
been around these You know how you know? You don't
know who I know, You don't know who anybody knows.

(46:57):
But you don't have to be around people every day,
ladies and gentlemen. One of my best friends in the
world is my boy Pooly. You know Poolly that love
the big women. You got to be a minimum of
two hundred and fiftyounds for him to look at you
Beyonce could be in front of his face and E'd
be like, what the hell am I supposed to do
with that? She's too small. That Pooly Pooy was raised

(47:19):
in Hollis Queen's with me, I'm lucky if I see
Pooley once a year. Once a year. I'm lucky if
we talk more than five times a year. The one
thing you will never hear me say is that there's
somebody on this planet Earth that is my best friend

(47:40):
over him. I grew up with him. I've known him
for over fifty years. Fifty five. Actually, that's my dog.
I don't give a damn if I don't see him
or I'll talk to him as much I love my brother,
and if he ever needs me, I'm only a call away.

(48:01):
This notion that you got to hang out with people
and got to fratenize all the time and got to
be in front of their face all the damn time
for them to be friends, y'all know that's not true.
I'm doing jay Z for twenty five years. I never
believed he was guilty of such a thing. Ever, it's

(48:22):
a damn shame that the only voice I heard say
that was myself. It's pretty messed up. He's a better
man than me, though he'll probably move on. I wouldn't
forget any of y'all asses, wouldn't do much, wouldn't say much,

(48:43):
but I know you, and you'd know I know you
to Jay, Beyonce and the family. Hope y'all continue to
live life wonderfully and prosperously. I'm glad this specific ordeal

(49:06):
is over, and I hope you never have to deal
with anything like this again. That's all I got to say,
because anything else I say, I might just cuss people out.
Can't speak up for nobody. That's how much punks we
are in this day, and these can't speak of anybody

(49:26):
coming up. All bunch of stuff is going on with
Donald Trump showing you as strength or capitulating the poot,
and we don't know how I might be of assistance
if I went in the Oval office. I don't know
about that either, but I'm about to speculate on a
very high level to kill some noise once and for all.

(49:47):
If you didn't know where I stand before on my
own politics and how I feel, you're about to find out.
Hold on to this because I don't like repeat myself too.
Last block of the Steven Ax Smith Show coming out
in a minute. Welcome back to the stephen Ate Smith

(50:09):
Show right here over the digital airwaves and YouTube, and
of course iHeartRadio. Let me switch to a subject near
and dear to my heart me because once again I'm
in the news and you would think it would be
about something else other than what I'm in the news for,

(50:30):
but one thing after another has appeared. I had a
couple of articles that I had to pay attention to
this week, and there is no way around this. So
I'm going to tackle it with the further that it
deserves and let you know what I'm thinking. The Daily

(50:51):
Beast last week wrote the headline is top them a
lot to like about stephen A. Smith presidential bid, that
is as a House minority speaker Hakeem Jeffries, who I
hope will be on this show in a very near future.
Another article came out this week and by the New
Yorker headline stephen A Smith for President New Yorker dot Com.

(51:13):
Check it out. I must admit I got on like
a lavender blazer with a lavender shirt and a purple tie.
I was looking pretty fly, if I should say so myself.
I just want to throw that out there. I just
want to throw that out there, Okay, and out of
the latest It's courtesy of TMZ, now mind You, USA Today,
Washington Post, USA. You know, various other publications have written

(51:36):
about this as well. Steven A. Smith, I am not
running for US president. This is when TMZ caught me
coming out of a Shannon Sharps party in New Orleans
during Super Bowl week, and I guess they ran this recently,
and I wanted to go there because I wanted to
make sure that I put this to bed once and
for all. I have no intentions of running for the

(51:58):
presidency of the United States America. I do not believe
I am an officionado. I do not believe that my
pockets are deep enough for me to ignore the financial
strain that could potentially have on me, because obviously I
earn more than the President of the United States. Right now,
it makes about fur hundred thousand dollars a year that position.

(52:19):
There is Senate and congressional figures make anywhere from one
hundred and seventy two hundred and seventy thousand a year.
Needless to say, I make more money than that, and
so I'm not really interested on that level. But here's
a reason why, while being honest about having zero desire

(52:43):
whatsoever to be a politician, because I consider them beggars donors,
you know campaign donations, you know sponsors, and you know
political figures, and even when you get into office, you
got to curry favor with politicians to get legislation pushed
through and all of this other stuff. I mean, it's
just no peace in my life. Plus it's given you

(53:05):
a license because I'm asking to legislate the lives of
three hundred and fifty plus American citizens. That gives you
a license to get into my personal business that I
don't want you in. That all of that's true. But
there's a reason. While there's a reason that, while saying
what I've said and meaning it, I've often said, even

(53:31):
in a half joking way, of the American people wanted
me to be the president of the United States, and
I knew that I had a really, really good shot
to win. I can't deny that it's something I would consider.
Let me tell you why I say that, because I
think our system sucks. I think the binary system that

(53:56):
we're in where we have to choose between the Democrats
or the Republicans is a joke. I think it dissuades
a vast majority of American citizens from wanting to be
a part of the political process, and I think that
something needs to be done about it in order to
bring America back to where it should have always been.

(54:17):
Ladies and gentlemen, I cover sports full living, Griff Sherry Rashan, Everybody,
listen up, because I'm only gonna say this once, so
very very important, because I know, like I told America before,
I've got a bunch of liberals working for me. Some
are closet Republicans. They don't want to admit it, but
it's true. We got a bunch of liberals working for me.
In a whole bit. Let me be very very clear

(54:39):
about where I stand. Wes, you need to listen to
damn it. You got a family, Listen to me. Listen
when I'm talking to you, Ladies and gentlemen, I cover
sports for a living. I like competition. I want legitimate
competition between the Republican and the Democratic Party over your

(55:01):
ideas of what the country should be and how we
can get it there. I hated when the Left because
I firmly believed they politicized a whole bunch of legal
stuff against Donald Trump. I'm not questioning the legitimacy or

(55:21):
lack thereof. I don't know. You got the eleven thousand
votes he was seeking in Georgia, you got the thirty
four felony convictions he received in New York. Some people
said it's hush money. Others said, what's the difference between
that and a NDA? Damn it. The man cooked up
with a poorn star and didn't want anybody to know
before the election. Oh my god, stop the presses. John

(55:44):
Edwards got loose as a Democratic nominee or a Democratic
candidate when he was running for the presidency. He didn't
want people to know. I'm quite sure he would have
hit it if if he could have gotten away with it.
Gary Edwards did the same thing. You don't think Clinton
tried to submerge evidence against him with the whole Monica
Lewisky skinned Come on. I think it was politicized to

(56:07):
some degree anyway. And I hated that because what I
was saying is beat him, go back to the tapes,
Griff not ahead. If I'm lyon, I was saying, beat him,
don't pussy for the round don't depend on the legal
system to wipe him out, so you don't have to
go against him in the polls beat him. What's one

(56:30):
of the reasons I think he lost. I think he
won because he was saying, you can't beat me. You're
using this to get help, because you can't beat me
on your own. And sure enough, election day rose around
and the Democrats got their ass kicked. I don't want

(56:51):
to hear this noise about how he can get fifty
percent of the vote. Forty nine point eight percent he got.
Kamala got forty eight point three. The man won fifty
counties and went up in every one of them. He
won all six or seven swing states, The black vote,
the Hispanic vote, the young voters all voted for him.

(57:16):
He won. He won because we didn't want to engage
in competition on the left. We were looking for the
courts to help us. Now we fast forward, and what
are we saying here? I'm reading an article right here,
New York Times. I'm reading it right here, New York

(57:37):
Times headline venting at Democrats and fearing Trump, liberal donors
pulled back cash. I'm gonna read a couple of excepts
from here, from you the small dollar online figured that
powered oppositions to the first Trump administration has slowed to
a trickle as shaking liberal voters withhold their donations. Charitable

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foundations that are long supported cause like voting rights, LGBTQ equality,
and immigrants rights are pulling back the voting time to
prepare for expected investigations from the Republican led Congress, as
some of the country's biggest legal donors Liberal donors I'm
sorry have paused giving, frustrated with what they see as
democrats lack of vision and worried about retaliation from eventful president.

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Some Democrats say a few of their reliable donors are
now openly supporting mister Trump, or at least looking to
curry favor with him, and another paragraph it says while
mister Trump has not taken action against any liberal groups
or lawmakers, Democrats worry his frequent threats of retribution during
the campaign have led to a chilling effect on the
charitable foundations and nonprofit advocacy groups that have long been

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pillars of the country civil society. Jeff Skoll, a Silicon
Valley billionaire and a longtime friend of Elon Musk, said
there was an awful lot of pressure to side with Trump.
This month, mister Skull, who's donated tens of millions to
Democratic candidates and courses in recent years but said he
did not vote in twenty twenty four presidential election, posted
a photo on social media of himself standing with mister

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Trump backstage at the inauguration on Friday at breakfast in
Palm Beach, Florida, with Senator Chuck Schumer, New York, the
minority leader, where they discussed the prospect of mister Schumer's
using mister Skull to back channel ideas to the president.
Mister Schumer recalls the conversation differently, according to an aid. Okay,

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but here's the biggest thing, and I'll stop the reading
after this quote. There are people who are absolutely against Trump,
never trumpets, who fear that they'll be retaliated against it.
They'll have to leave the country, mister Schul said. Folks
who wish to oppose them, it may take some time
before they gather up the courage, but listen to this.
The result is a political environment that is strikingly different
from twenty seventeen, when money poured into democratic causes, fortifying

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existing organizations and ceding the flowering of new groups to
fight different parts of mister Trump's agenda. Now, some of
those same organizations are struggling to survive, in part because
few new major liberal donors have emerged since twenty seventeen.
Groups that support LGBTQ rights, promote gender equity, and champion
other progressive causes have cut staffing and announced that longtime

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leaders are leaving In United and Citizens United, a left
leaning group that aims to overhaul campaign finance laws, laid
off its six senior staff members last month as part
of her restructuring. Run for Something, which works to elect
liberal down ballot candidates, laidoff thirty five percent of its
staff late last year, and Gelson GLS he and a

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group dedicated to protect the LGBTQ students, laid off twenty
five people last month. Let me tell y'all something. If
you're the Democrats, that's why Stephen A. Smith is in
the news, be cause y'all don't have anybody. You don't
have anybody who got who got Kamala Harris Bett not run,

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she betted, not run. She's not gonna win the presidency
in twenty twenty eight. Keep in mind respect for her
I'm not gonna disrespect the former vice president of the
United States. Never do that. But we got to be
real about something here. When she ran for election on
her own, she couldn't make it to Iowa in twenty twenty.
She ultimately positions himself gets the vice presidency they win

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the election. In twenty twenty, Joe Biden is feeling himself
after the Liberals won the mid terms and instead of
being a transitional president like he promised, the man backstabbed
the Liberal Party and turned around and said, I'm staying.
They wanted him out. So what did everybody rate? We
all know this now booboo, the fool can see what happened.

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Now you knew he had lost the step We don't
know what the hell was wrong with them, but clearly
his fastball was gone. So you have no primary. You
fix it so he doesn't have to face a primary,
and then you put him on stage last June twenty
seventh for a debate. He embarrasses himself and three weeks
later he has to bow out. So Kamala Harrison come
in as a Democratic nominee for the presidency of the

(01:01:55):
United States of America at a time when they didn't
have any time to put somebody else and to compete
with her. You don't overcome that after losing the election.
America ain't gonna go for it on the left. They
gonna go for it. Who else you got, Hakeem Jeffries.
I personally support west Water, governor of Maryland, but I

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don't know how much of a national figure he is.
Already interviewed Jos Shapiro. And oh, by the way, that
the Republicans listening out there, you're welcome to come on
to Stephen Asmith show. I'm not one sided. See, this
is why my name is in the election. You hear me, Griff,
You hear me west You hear me Sherry, You hear
me with Sea, You hear me the Stephen A. Smith
team I'm talking to. That's why I'm in the news.

(01:02:37):
I'm not in the news because I'm here. I'm in
the news because the Democratic Party is here. Damn it.
Lower than that down at the bottle. They suck right now,
horrible because they don't have a voice. Where in the
hell of the voice everybody want to sit up there
talking about I mean, I need anvience. We do not
need it, but we don't need a voice. We don't

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need a voice. Well, guess what, somebody got to send
the message. How the hell can somebody receive a message
If there's no messenger, you gotta do it, and they
don't have anybody. That's why Stephen A. Smith as a candidate.
Who the hell told y'all I'd want to be a Democrat.

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I have conservative ideas. I believe in free market capitalism.
I believe in patrol on our borders. I believe in
strong national security. But you all right, I'd probably be
a Democrat, a moderate, a centrist leaning left. I'm about
that Bill Clinton Newt Ginridge agreement. I'm about that surplus

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when Clinton walked out of office. I'm about Obama deporting
more than Trump did, but the American public didn't notice.
I'm about a strong economy. I want Grift to get paid.
I want Chevy to get paid. I want Gala to
get paid. I don't want Rashan to get paid. I
just want to get paid to you really really think

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that Stephen A. Smith would tolerate crime in the streets
to the point where you gotta lit three people in
the store at a time. Do you know anything about me?
Do you know what I would do as commanded in
chief if I saw a crime raiding through our streets
and it was affecting jobs and safety and ultimately the economy.
Do you know who the hell you're talking to or

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listening to? Hell Trump might not have anything on me
with that. I ain't having it. I ain't having it.
So I'm just saying to y'all, that's why I'm a candidate.
It ain't because I want to. It ain't because I'm
some expert. It ain't because I'm some official or not.
Who's saying that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
I know?

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
You know how much I would have to learn. Hell,
I don't even know how to pronounce most foreign dignitaries names.
The sad part is that I'd still be there Democrat
out there right now, because who the hell is resonating
with the American people. Hell, even Jos Shapiro came on

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the show, who I like a lot, by the way,
and even talking about I'm just contre treating on Pennsylvania.
What what we need? More than that, I have no
interest in getting involved more so than pundency and commentary.
But you better hope I stay feeling that way, because

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let me tell you something right now, I said, I'll
bring the rain. I lied, I bring hell hell because
I ain't playing I'm near to win. I two party
system sucks. You think I like what I see Elon
Musk doing. I don't know whether I like it or not.

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I don't know if he could be trusted. I don't
like the fact that he's getting billions from our federal
government while he's doing business on behalf of the president,
and the president is talking about all police and myself,
I'll watch him. Why I was supposed to trust that. No,
but President Trump has a right to do it because
he won, because y'all didn't beat him. Because while he

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was talking about the economy, and he was talking about
the price of goods, and he was talking about inflation,
and he was talking about our borders, and he was
talking about crime in the streets, the Democrats was talking
about LGBTQ and transgender rights and one percent of the
population at the expense and see, and this is the
part that I want to make sure I'm clear about.

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This was the crime. It's not that they were talking
about transgender rights. It's that they forgot thirteen percent of
the population in the black community, and they forgot nearly
twenty percent of the population in the Hispanic community who

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supported them at the expense of the one percent. How
stupid can you be. I don't believe that's Kamala Harris's fault.
I believe that's zealots on the left, on the progressive side,
who somehow, some way managed to pull these people to
their side. Nobody sent your left simply looked at them

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in the face, whether it's AOC or anybody else from
the squad, and ask a simple question, where the hell
are you going? If you don't vote for us, what
you gonna do? Go vote, vote, vote, vote for Trump.
You're gonna vote right, and you're on the progressive left.
If you all the way left, okay, if you all
the way left, what you gonna do? All the way right?

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You might not like where somebody is center left, but
at least they're closer to the left on the other side,
and the center left was capitulating to that. Why because
you had no strong leadership, You had nobody to tell
them to sit their ass down, shut up and follow
my lead. I'm the Democratic nominee for the presidency of
the United States, not you. We gonna do this my way.

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They don't have that on the left, and now you
got a whole bunch of people running scared, talking about
leaving the country because they scared of Trump. Well, maybe
if you didn't try to lose use warfare to get him,
and you just sat up there and competed with him
fair and square about your policies being better than his,
and articulated that message to the masters, maybe it wouldn't

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be this way. But you didn't do it. That's why
Stephen A. Smith is being polled as a presidential nominee.
It ain't because I'm qualified, It damn sure ain't because
I'm the smartest dude in the room. It's because I

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got herd I got guts, and if we're gonna have
a fight, let's get down, let's get it on. America
knows I would do that much, and I'd have a
clue as to what I'm talking about, and I'd have
a clue as to what not to talk about, like
something that's less than one percent of the population. Think

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about this last point, I'm gonna make president. Barack Obama
deported more people than Trump ever did, and you barely
heard about it. He just did it knowing that Joe
Biden opened borders. They can talk about how you can

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open it, but you couldn't necessarily close it after you
opened it because of COVID and all this stuff. I
don't want to hear that the streets of America were
ravaged with illegal immigrants in our nation and Joe Biden
and his administs did nothing about it after Obama had

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done everything about it other than past comprehensive immigration reform
which takes both sides of the aisle. President Obama did
his job, Joe Biden did not. And the Democrats, who
are progressives that means looking forward, stood up during his

(01:10:29):
State of the Union, knowing that he was approaching eighty
two years of age and chanted for more years. You
have no authenticity, you have no legitimacy. Your heart might
be in the right place with some of the policies
that you're trying to implement, some of the things that
you're trying to move forward, while it appears Trump maybe

(01:10:52):
trying to turn the clock back. But it's the price
you pay when you're in selfish tone, death, devoid of impact.

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That's what the Democratic Party, that's where the Democratic Party
is at right now, and it's exactly why some sports
analyst on National TV is a candidate for the presidency
of the United States of America. I have no desire

(01:11:34):
whatsoever to compromise my quality of life for this, but
I'll say this much about myself. I don't blame millions
of Americans if they want me to, because what the
hell is the alternative? Look at y'all. Look at y'all.

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I'm talking to the dem specifically, what a travesty. Everybody's
jumping ship from y'all. Party has to change, It has
to be purged. And those who got in Kamala Harris's
ear and told her that that was the strategy they

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needed to exercise in those one hundred and seven days
before the election, all of them should be gone, every
living ass, every one of them. What an egregious plan
to put forth. She didn't lose this election. Y'all lost it,

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and with it you took her presidential aspirations with her
and threw it away. That's why I'm a candidate, And
even though I have no desire to be one, I
don't mind the noise. Hopefully it'll make y'all uncomfortable to
get y'all back up so you can get your act

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together and do what the hell you supposed to do.
If not that holler at me in three years, I
mighta changed my mind by then. Til next time, Peace
in love, everybody, Stephen, that sonn